Have we replaced our core truths of faith with tolerance?

The church of Jesus Christ is by design to be an intolerant church—intolerant of sin.
Madeleine L’Engle’s oppositional and noncomplimentary statement drives home that point: “The modern church is a safe place to escape the awful demands of God.”
Christianity was never intended to be easy or tolerant—or a “safe” house from the exigencies of life. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is always to be revealed to Christians and the unchurched alike as they live out their lives.
Modern churches in mainline denominations generally—and the Methodist denomination specifically—have veered far off course from their reason d’etre. For the past several decades there has been a “softening up” of the definitive message of Jesus Christ—“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
No matter what 21st century spin one might apply to Jesus’ statement, the fact remains that his declaration was meant to be parochial and in perpetuity.
The absolutism of Christ’s message has become diluted with others that are far more palatable to ears assumed to be too sensitive rather than eager for a definitive message from God.
We have, I fear, become the Church of Tolerance.
How would liberals in our denomination respond to the following scenario?
Moses is denied what the secular world would regard as his hard-earned privilege of leading the Hebrews into Canaan (Numbers 20). God’s instructions to Moses were clearly spelled out to him up front, but he was disobedient to God when he was within sight of the
Promised Land.
Had God ignored this disobedience, a dangerous precedent of exception would have been set, one with which God would have to deal.
Now let’s look at how a modern liberal would likely deal with that Old Testament account:
“Surely, God, you can’t be serious! Just think of all the good things Moses has done for you and your people. Can’t you make an exception? Everyone, I’m sure, will be most appreciative. Besides, Moses is so close to retirement.”
Scenarios of toleration by liberals in our denomination over several generations are legion. If liberals of the cloth were to be asked by members or visitors in their congregations, “How can I become a Christian?” who among them would know how to respond? Or would they utter something innocuous like, “Just be a good person and have good intentions”?
Too many ignore the admonition of John Wesley. He stated, “Give me just five minutes with five men from hell, and I will
change the world.”
Apparently, Wesley took a literal view of the Bible’s description of hell. Saving souls, not social programs, has always been the primary task of the church of Jesus Christ.
Many contemporary bishops, district superintendents and pastors treat prophecy, hell and judgment like they were the plague. The field that is “ripe for harvest” (John 4:35) could be dealt devastating spiritual and eternal consequences by the omission of basic truths.
Some teachers of the word will have some explaining to do one day as they stand before Jesus Christ, should he ask, “What kept you from telling the entire truth to those I place in your charge?”
No one will escape responsibility for lost opportunities any more than could Pilate at Jesus’ trial when he responded to one of our savior’s statements with the sad utterance: “What is truth?”
We, too, can wash our hands until our skin falls off, but truth will not be denied. If we don’t speak it now, we’ll face it later.
Either we know what the core truth is, or we were less than honest when we took the oath at our ordination.